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The Deadly Reality of Crossing Borders

December 18, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

Governments are squabbling. Cartels are winning. Migrants are dying.

When it comes to migration, we are setting all the wrong records.

On November 24, in “the worst migrant tragedy in the English Channel in years,” over two dozen migrants died while trying to cross from France to Britain.

In Central America, smugglers crammed more than 160 migrants into a …

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A New Consensus

December 13, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

In the face of so many worsts, we need a new approach. 

On November 24, in “the worst migrant tragedy in the English Channel in years,” over two dozen migrants died while trying to cross from France to Britain. 

Across the Middle East, based on rumors, migrants pay approximately $2,500 to take a “new route into the EU.” But in the forests along the …

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From Lampedusa to Lesbos

December 8, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

One hundred and seventeen days after elevating to the papacy, Pope Francis took his first official trip outside the Vatican to visit the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. An island closer to Tunisia than Sicily. An island that, since 1998, has been a transit point for migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. 

Holding religious objects made from the wood of boats carrying …

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Simple Solutions are the Wrong Solutions

December 3, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

Outsourcing immigration enforcement allows extremism to thrive, leaving us with complicated solutions.

From initially blocking asylum seekers to then extending humanitarian relief to ultimately hardening and militarizing borders, the European Union’s 2015 response to the Syrian refugee crisis was dizzying for policy experts, much less the migrants who sought protection. Their blunt …

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Creating Chaos

November 26, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

Borders are meant to create order. But, around the world, authoritarians are using borders to create chaos. 

In the November issue of The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum looks at how authoritarians are working together -- across borders -- to viciously stamp out protests and preserve, if not increase, their hold on power. 

In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, after claiming to have won …

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